Enjoy the Excitement of America’s Most Historic Square Mile Like Never Before With SelfTour’s Legendary Historic Philadelphia GPS Guided Walking Tour App.

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This Continuous, full-circle walking tour with turn-by-turn spoken directions and inspiring descriptions via GPS using your smartphone or tablet leads you on a  2 ½  mile adventure through the actual locations of America’s founding!

  • Walk in the footsteps of America’s founders and hear their inspiring words spoken where it happened.
  • Visit over 50 historically significant sites including the Betsy Ross House, Carpenters’ hall, Dolley Madison’s home, Franklin’s kite flying location, Christ Church, Franklin’s grave, and Elfreth’s Alley.
  • Plus churches, museums, meeting houses, courtyards, mansions and even the locations of ghostly happenings.
  • And hear a recreation of the sound of the Liberty Bell as last heard in 1846 – A SelfTour™ Exclusive!

Plus fascinating tales of the area’s historic characters and its over 250 year long history.

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A Delightful Experience!

The descriptions are performed by talented voice actors in an entertaining style, underscored with dramatic music and enhanced with photos.  The descriptions have been thoroughly researched providing accurate information about the history of the sites and the area’s role in forming a new Country.

Voice Actors and Narrators

We are proud to share with you information about our exceptional voice-over talent who have used their performance skills to bring our SelfTour Audio Adventures alive:

Em Eldridge

Em Eldridge is an ACX Audible narrator of over 25 audio books.  She is also an award winning filmmaker and accomplished classical singer and violinist.

 

 

 

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Ralph Archbold

Actor and speaker, Ralph portrayed American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin for over 40 years in historic Philadelphia. In full costume, he could often be found in Franklin Court sitting
on a bench entertaining visitors and posing for photos. He appeared in many films about Franklin and appointed by President George W. Bush to oversee the Franklin’s 300 th birthday celebration.

Tyler Rhoads

Tyler Rhoads is both an actor and voice coach as well a voice performer.  His work in television includes the series Babylon Berlin, Hitting the Breaks and the voice of Rolo in the hit series Voltron among numerous other film and television projects.

 

 

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You're in Control!

The easy-to-use hands-free exclusive SelfTour™ system ensures an enjoyable full-circle walking tour on your own schedule, at your own pace.  No waiting for others! You can join the tour at any location, stop anywhere along the way and continue again.  And it is a complete circle tour so you end up where you started.  The GPS always shows you where you are so you can’t get lost.   There are no advertisements and an internet connection is not needed.  Just download and go!

All this makes your personal tour an enjoyable experience.

If there’s a tour worth taking, it’s worth taking a SelfTour!

Now… walk through history!

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